Results for passive

Definitions of passive:

part of speech: adjective

Suffering: unresisting: not acting: ( gram.) expressing the suffering of an action.

part of speech: adjective

Not opposing or resisting; suffering without resistance; submissive; denoting that form of a verb in which the object of the active voice becomes the subject.

part of speech: adjective

Suffering without resisting; not acting but acted upon; as, a passive disposition; submissive; in grammar, indicating that form of the transitive verb which asserts that the subject is acted upon.

part of speech: adverb

PASSIVELY.

Usage examples for passive:

• Elsie's tears had ceased to flow, but they were still trembling in her eyes, and the little face wore a very sad and troubled expression as she stood patiently passive in her nurse's hands. "Elsie Dinsmore", Martha Finley

• Hitherto, in the spirit of her passive and gentle character, she had taken the engagement between Evelyn and Lord Vargrave almost as a matter of course. "Alice, or The Mysteries, Book I", Edward Bulwer Lytton